Emil Otto von Gemmingen-Guttenberg

Emil Otto von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (born June 4, 1880 in Mannheim , † April 25, 1945 in Berlin ) was Chamberlain for the Grand Duke of Baden during the German Empire and later Ministerial Director at the Reich Audit Office in Berlin.

Life

Tomb of Emil Otto von Gemmingen and his wife Hannah in Fürfeld

He came from the German house of the sub-branch Fürfeld of the Guttenberg-Fürfeld line of the barons of Gemmingen and was the son of the Mannheim merchant Rudolf von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (1846-1917) and Kathi Strecker († 1929). He grew up in Mannheim and also attended school there. During his studies in 1898 he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity . Until 1918 he was chamberlain for the Grand Duke of Baden. When the Gemmingen family entourage was dissolved in 1922, he was the owner of a field and forest area of the Fürfelder house. In 1925 he entered the civil service and was initially advisor to the Reich Ministry of Labor. In 1933 he became a ministerial director at the Reich Audit Office in Berlin.

In 1910 he married Hannah Reichardt (1883–1945). The marriage had the children Hannah, married Breitenbach (* 1912, † 2005), Ursula (* 1916) and Georg Rudolf Hans Dieter (* 1918). Emil Otto and his wife Hannah died when the Soviet troops marched into Berlin on April 25, 1945. Her tomb has been preserved in the Fürfeld cemetery .

literature

Walter von Hueck: Lineage of the Barons von Gemmingen , special print from the Genealogical Handbook of the Adels Volume 37 (Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume VI), CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1966
Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen. Continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26 , Elztal 1991.
Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 57 ( online , PDF; 3.9 MB).

Individual evidence

↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 141.

personal data
SURNAME	Gemmingen-Guttenberg, Emil Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ministerial Director at the Reich Audit Office
DATE OF BIRTH	June 4, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH	April 25, 1945
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 141.